Cooking-stand for preserving-cans



Patented Mar. 9,1897.

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(No Model.)

to the operator.

, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LA URA E. TYGERT, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

COOKING-STAND FOR PR ESERVING- CANS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 578,375, dated March 9,1897.

Application filed July 22 .1 89 6.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LAURA E. TYGERT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Albany, in the county of Albany and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Cooking-Stands forPreserving-Cans, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in cooking-stands for use forholding preserving-cans for cooking their contents when preserving orcanning fruits, vegetables, &c.; and it consists in the devices andelements and combinations of devices and elements set forth anddescribed in this specification; and the objects of my improvements are,first, to provide a simple means for securely holding one or morecanning-jars or other vessels in place in a cooking-kettle while cookingthe contents of the jars and for facilitating the removal of the samefrom the cooking-kettle without least liability of the operator beingscalded or burned; also, providing means by which cans of difierentsizes may at will be retained in place and be removed at the same time,and, further, to provide means by which two or more cans or jars may besimultaneously seated in holding devices and held in place therein inthe cooking-stand and be under the control of the operator and by her besimultaneously removed from the cookingkettle and carried to a place ofdeposit without least danger of scalding or giving discomfort I attainthese objects by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings,forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a plan viewof a cooking-stand embodying the improvements in my invention. Fig. 2 isa side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a section view of the lower-endholder, and Fig t is a section view of the upper-end holder.

The'same letters of reference refer to similar parts throughout theseveral views.

In the drawings, A represents the lowerend-holding device for receivingand holding in place a can or jar when its contents are to be cooked bythe action of heat from boiling water contained within a cooking-kettleor other vessel.

Serial No. 600,114. (No model.)

B is the handle, and O is the upper-end-retaining piece or device.

The loWer-end-holding piece A comprises one or more bottom-receivingportions, as a and b, suitably connected with a ring-form web 0. Thebottom-receiving portion 17 may be comprised by two ormoredownwardlyprojected and inwardly-turned holding-lips b 1), formed,preferably, integral with the Web 0, as shown by full lines in Fig. 3,or upwardly-projected posts a (1, preferably integral with said web 0,as shown in said Fig. 3. The downwardly-projected holding-lips b b areconnected with the web 0 with their upper ends set at a linecorresponding with the circumferential line of the jar or can seatingtherewith, and they may be made with bearing-surfaces of angular formwhen the side walls of the can or jar, at the bottom thereof, are atright angles with the bottom of the same, yet when the bottom corner ofthe can or jar is curved in form I would form the said holding-lips b bwith concave curves on their inner sides, as shown in Fig. 3, so as tocorrespond with the rounded bottom'corners of the can or jar. Theupwardly-projected posts a a are also preferably integral with web 0,

and are employed in number of two or more set on a circular linecorresponding with the circumferential line of a can or jar of largerdiameter than one to be seated and supported from thedownwardly-projected bottom-receiving portions a above described. Whenthe bottom corners of the can or jar are rounded, the inner sides ofsaid posts are made with concave surfaces, as shown, so that these postsa a may present to the bottom portion of the can or jara form or shapeof holding-surface which will readily receive said bottom portion andretain the same from shifting in either direction in relation to theholding device. 7

If preferred, in some cases there may be employed in lieu of the two ormore downwardlyprojected holding-lips b b a circular or ringform holdingdevice, as 1), (shown and indicated by' full and by dotted lines in Fig.3,) which ring-form holding device may be substantially continuous andintegral with the web 0 and be annular to a central opening a 'Fi g. 3;and have its inner side concave and so shaped as to receive and retainthe bottom portion of the can or jar; and, if preferred, theupwardly-projected can-retaining pieces, comprising two or moreupwardly-projected posts a a, may be formed so as to consist of acontinuous ring-form device, as a, (shown by full lines and dotted linesin Fig. 3,) which ringform portion is made, preferably,integral with theWeb 0 and with a form of inner surface corresponding with the bottomcorner portion of the can or jar, so as to retain the same in place fromshifting in any direction. hen this lower-end-retaining device isprovided with the bottom-retaining devices a a or a and b b or b,integral with the web 0, the said device A will be adapted to receiveand retain in place cans of different diameters at their bottoms, sothat with a single cookingstand jars or cans of capacity of quarts orpints may be properly held in place while their contents are beingcooked.

Although the stand may comprise but one lower-end-holding device A, yetI prefer to employ two or more of said devices A,as shown in Figs. 1 and2, in which case I would arrange the handle B relatively central andwould make the web 0 of each device integral with the web or webs of theothers in the group of holding devices A preferred to be joined togetherin a single stand, as illustrated in Fig. 1.

The handle B, I prefer to make in the form of a vertical rod, as (Z,secured by any suitable means, and preferably by a screw-nut d, with theweb portion 0, and for convenience of carrying this stand I provide thecrosspiece 01 suitably secured tothe upper end of the vertical rod 61,as shown.

The upper-end-retaining device 0 consists of a suitable metal piececarrying two or more downwardly-projected holding-lips e 6, setrelatively on a circular line corresponding with the circumferentialline of the outer side (or inner side) of the neck or mouth of the canor jar. For convenience and use with cans or jars having their upperends or necks or months of different diameters I provide a second seriesof two or more projections,as downwardly-projected lips ce, setrelatively on a circular line corresponding with one of larger diameterthan on which lips ee are set. These holding-lips e e and e e arepreferably integral with the crescent-shaped web 6 although the webemployed may be of circular form and continuous, if preferred, yet madein the form of a section of a circular piece or crescent-shaped itanswers all the purposes and saves metal. This upper-end-retainin gpiece 0 is provided with ear 6 made integral with web 8 and havingperforation c for. receiving a supporting or retaining rod D, which issecured in place with the web 0 of the lowerend-retaining device A, withwhich this upper-end-retaining device 0 is to be employed. Thisretaining-rod D is vertical and parallel with the vertical rod 11 of thehandle B and is so arranged in relation to the center of the webs c ande that when the web 6 of this upper-end-retaining piece is in placeholding with the upper end portion of a can or jar its center will becoincident with the center of web 0 of the lower-end-retaining device A.This upper-end-retaining piece 0 is by its perforation a free to bemoved vertically at will in either direction, so as to be readilyadjusted to the height of the can or jar the piece 0 is to hold with byits holding devices e e or c e. The said retainingpiece 0 may be swungto one side and rela tively off from the lower-end-retainin g device Aor be raised off from its retaining-shaft D,

as may be preferred, to be replaced thereon when a can is to be seatedin the holding device A and retained therein. hen the stand is tocomprise two or more lower-end-retaining devices, as A A, I provide witheach said device a retaining-rod D and upper end-retaining device (J, asdescribed, so that each can in the stand may be provided with suitableholding devices, as e c or c e, for engaging with cans of varying sizes,as may be required. Although these upper-end-retainin g devices, whenused two or more in a stand, may each be separate and independentpieces, yet, if preferred, they may be made to be integral with eachother and be made to work on the handle-rod d as a retaining-rod by being perforated at a point midway between the centers of the two or more ofsaid upper-endretaining devices in the group, and as indicated by dottedlines in Fig. 2, in which case the rods D will be dispensed with, thevertical rod (:2 of the handle 13 serving the purpose of aretaining-rod.

WVhen this stand is to be used, the operator will place the can or jar(if but one device A comprises the stand) or cans and jars, containingthe substances to be cooked, will be seated in their respective placeswith their bottom portions on the devices a or b or a or b, accordinglyas may be provided and as may be in correspondence with the diameters ofthe bottoms of the respective cans or jars, when the upper-end-retaining pieces will be moved to position to bring the respective holdingdevices c or e e, as may be required, into engagement wit-h the upperend portions of the respective cans. When the can or jar or cans or jarsare so placed and secured, the operator will place this stand with itscontents on the bottom of a suitable cooking kettle or vessel F,containing an inch or more of water, or enough to submerge the lowerends of the cans to a suitable distance, and will submit the cans andtheircontents to the action of the boiling water in the cooking vesselfor such a length of time as may be preferred or be necessary toproperly cook the contents of the can or jar. The operator will then bythe handle B remove the stand and the jars or cans thereon from thecooking vessel and remove the heated cans or jars from the stand steamand also without the least discomfort from heat.

This stand may be employed for holding vessels containing eggs requiredto be cooked by poaching process and for boiling or cooking gravies orfarinaceous substances, as oatmeal or flour or meal of wheat or othergrains.

This stand may be constructed of any suitable metal, cast or struck, andits parts may be made with any suitable forms as may be :0 suitable toadapt them for use with cans, jars,

or other vessels of sizes and forms as may be found to be advantageousfor use.

When downwardly-projected holding-lips b b are employed for engagingwith the lower or bottom end of the jar or can or other vesselforholding such vessel from shifting, the water within the cooking vesselwill readily have contact with the bottom and side walls of the can orjar to the distance it is submerged, as the water may freely flowthrough the openings between said lips, while when the circular concaveform of holding device, as b, Fig. 3, is employed the notches or ports19 provided in such devices (indicated by 3 5 dotted lines in Fig. 3)will allow the water in the cooking vessel to readily flow to a contactwith the bottom or lower portion of the side walls of the jar or vessel.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s

1. In a cooking-stand the combination with device A, described, adaptedto retain the lower end of a can, jar or other vessel in place fromshifting, of a handle adapted to serve as a means for transferring thestand to or from a cooking vessel, substantially as and for the purposesset forth.

2. In a cooking-stand the combination with '50 an encircling webprovided with devices described for retaining the lower ends, or bottomportions of two cans, jars, or other vessels, each of different diameterin place when respectively seated in their retaining devices,

and a handle adapted to serve as a means for transferring the stand toor from a cooking vessel substantially as and for the purposes setforth.

.wardly-projected retaining-posts a a set on a 80 V 3. In acooking-stand,the combinatiomwith device A described, adapted to holdinplace cans, jars or other vessels, of two different sizes, one at atime, by their respective lower end portions, an upper-end-retainingdevice and a retaining-rod between device A, and saidupper-end-retaining device, of a handle adapted to serve as a means fortransferring the stand to or from a cooking vessel, substantially as andfor the purposes set forth.

4. In a cooking-stand, the combination with a lower-end-retaining deviceA comprising web 0 and downwardly-proj ected holding-lips b b and ahandle, of an upper-end-retaining device substantially as and for thepurposes set forth.

5. In a cooking-stand for holding cans, jars or other vessels, thecombination of a lowerend-holding device comprising web 0,downwardly-projected holding-lips b b set on a cir cular line of onegiven diameter, and upcircular line of a different diameter, of a handlefor transfer of said stand with can, jar or other vessel therein, to orfrom a cooking vessel, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

6. In a cooking-stand, the combination with device A described adaptedto hold a can, jar or other vessel in place by its lower end portion, ofan upper-end-retaining device 0 provided with two or moredownwardly-pro- 0' jected holding-lips adapted to engage with the upperend portions of the supported vessels, of like or different diameters, aretaining-rod fixed with device A, and holding with device 0 and adaptedto allow the latter to 5 be placed or displaced at will, and a handleadapted to serve as a means for transferring the stand to or.from acooking vessel, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

7. Inacooking stand,forholdingcans, jars, :00 or other vessels thecombination of two or more l'ower-end-holding devices A, described,

a corresponding number of upper-end-retaining devices 0, described, oneor more retaining-rods secured to devices A and adapted to be placed atwill into engagement with the upper ends of the vessels, and a handleadapted to serve as a means for transferring the cooking-stand to orfrom a cooking vessel, substantially as and for the purposes set noforth.

LAURA E. 'IYGERT.

Witnesses ALEX. SELKIRK, CHARLES SELKIRK.

